George Jacobs (basketball)

George Jacobs
Biographical details
Born	February 23, 1900; Hudson, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died	May 19, 1968 (aged 68); Winooski, Vermont, U.S.
Playing career
Football
1924–1926	Villanova
Basketball
1923–1926	Villanova
Baseball
c. 1925	Villanova
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1929	Villanova (assistant)
1947–1953	Saint Michael's
Basketball
1929–1936	Villanova
1947–1948	Saint Michael's
1952–1964	Saint Michael's
Baseball
1933–1943	Villanova
1948–1956	Saint Michael's
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
1947–1968	Saint Michael's
Head coaching record
Overall	28–8–2 (football); 220–164 (basketball); 139–95–1

George W. "Doc" Jacobs (February 23, 1900 – May 19, 1968) was an American coach and athletic director. He served as the third head men's basketball coach at Villanova University from 1929 to 1936. A three-sport star in football, basketball and baseball at Villanova in the mid-1920s, Jacobs later became the school's baseball coach from 1933 to 1943, with a Villanova won-loss record of 106–37.

After World War II in 1947, Jacobs moved to the Burlington, Vermont suburb of Winooski, where he became the athletic director at Saint Michael's College, serving in that and other athletic capacities until his death in 1968. Jacobs served as the school's baseball coach from 1948 through 1956, but it was as the school's basketball coach in the 1950s and early 1960s that he established St. Michael's NCAA Division II program, winning 159 games over a 12-year span and going to the NCAA National Division II tournament in Evansville, Indiana for three straight seasons, 1958 to 1960. He also served as the school's football coach. His 1951 "Purple Knights" went 6–0 and were declared "New England Champions".

Jacobs died of a heart attack on May 19, 1968, at the age of 68, at his home in Winooski, Vermont.^[1]

St. Michael's honors the memory of "Doc" annually, with their basketball season-opening tournament called "The Doc Jacobs Classic" and their athletic fields are named "Doc" Jacobs Field. Jacobs is considered "the father of modern day St. Michael's College Athletics".^{[citation needed]}

In 2014, Jacobs was posthumously inducted into the Vermont Sports Hall of Fame.

References

^ "SMC's 'Doc' Jacob Dies of Heart Attack". The Burlington Free Press. Burlington, Vermont. May 20, 1968. p. 13. Retrieved June 12, 2018 – via Newspapers.com .

External links

Vermont Sports Hall of Fame profile

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[1] "SMC's 'Doc' Jacob Dies of Heart Attack". The Burlington Free Press. Burlington, Vermont. May 20, 1968. p. 13. Retrieved June 12, 2018 – via Newspapers.com .

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